Tech Lead - Payments and Billing

The role

You will be the Tech Lead for the Payments squad within the Saldo Billing and Payments Service. You will own the squad's delivery and standards, set technical direction, and work hands-on to scale the payments architecture.

What you will do

• Take responsibility for the squad's delivery and the standards it works to
• Write specs and design docs, give feedback on ADRs, and review pull requests
• Solve problems directly through code or workflows
• Set the payments architecture direction
• Own payment accuracy and processing efficiency to reduce cost-to-process
• Define the squad's operating model and set the pace
• Manage sequencing and dependencies and diagnose throughput problems
• Coach junior engineers and work on hard problems alongside the senior engineer
• Partner on people decisions by flagging promotion and hiring gaps

Required qualifications

• A track record as a tech lead, owning the outcome of a squad's delivery and the standards it works to
• A track record of leading from the front line: writing design docs, reviewing PRs and ADRs, and solving problems hands-on while setting direction
• The ability to balance hands-on work on the biggest technical challenges with coaching more junior engineers
• Experience designing a team's ways of working from scratch
• Experience owning cross-team sequencing and dependencies, and diagnosing throughput problems
• Comfort cutting through real ambiguity to set technical direction, and driving technical blockers to resolution

Nice to have

• Deep experience with Python (FastAPI) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React
• Ability to be tech agnostic
• Someone who comes from the payments industry
• Experience improving cost-to-process or processing efficiency in a high-volume service
• Experience taking a service from a basic first version to something built for scale

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you
• Birthday off
• Remote first and flexible working
• No internal meetings on Friday afternoons
• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,200 per year for your remote setup
• Up to GBP150 or EUR150 per month for wellbeing

About the company

tem is a technology company rebuilding the energy transaction to be transparent and fair. They power energy for over 4,000 UK businesses across 8,500+ sites.